Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры by Potiropoulos and Partners is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Залатая прэмія A' Design Award in Дызайн архітэктуры, будынкаў і канструкцый Competition Category.
ЗолатаАрхітэктура· 2023
Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры
Client: Potiropoulos and Partners
Залатая прэмія A' Design Award Winner in Архітэктура Category
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The Design
About Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры
Развіццё канцэпцыі заснавана на двух звязаных аб'ёмах, размешчаных паралельна з аднаго боку сайта, у дыялогу з асаблівасцямі непасрэднага кантэксту, звяртаючыся да межаў і руху сайта. Рэагуючы на арыентацыю, выгляд, кірунак ветру і сезонныя змены ландшафту, комплекс адкрываецца або зачыняецца, развіваючы кожны раз іншы выгляд, так як пераход ад прыроднага да антуражу ўсталёўвае сістэму візуальных і канцэптуальных адносін і параметры, якія па сваёй сутнасці ўплываюць на архітэктурную прастору.
The Recognition
About the Залатая прэмія A' Design Award
Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры — пераможца Залатой прэміі A' Design Award, надзвычай прэстыжнага прызнання, якое прысуджаецца першакласным, цудоўным і выдатным дызайнам. Залатыя пераможцы — гэта надзвычай інавацыйныя, вельмі празорлівыя і бліскуча ўражальныя творы, якія адлюстроўваюць геніяльнасць, мудрасць і майстэрства сваіх дызайнераў. Чакаецца, што Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры — гэта вельмі ўхваляльнае, тэндэнцыйнае і манументальнае вынаходніцтва, якое дае нябачаную раней каштоўнасць. Гэты дызайн, што атрымаў Залатую прэмію A' Design Award, — спектакулярны, паважаны праект, які вельмі карысны і пашырае межы мастацтва, навукі, дызайну і тэхналогій. Cascading Terraces Жылыя Кватэры выклікае моцныя пачуцці жадання, абуджае запал, заахвочвае творчасць і зачароўвае нас.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The development of the concept is based on two linked volumes parallel to one side of the site, in dialogue with the particular nature of the immediate context, addressing the site boundaries and movement. Responding to the orientation, views, wind direction and the seasonal changes of the landscape, the complex opens up or closes, developing each time a different appearance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Approximate Total Building Area: 4580 square meters
- Tags
- architecture, residential, apartments, Greece, design, terrace, concrete, nature
- Production Technology
- In terms of materiality, raw concrete and white textured render are prominent in the building skin and fencing, developing a simple yet effective language. This approach, as expressed here spatially, implies materiality, temperature, density, weight and acoustic qualities, elements that are abstract but are derived from thorough experience.
- Design Challenge
- This emergent microcosm provides an intricate experience based on the dynamics between the man-made and the natural, the point of focus and the background, the familiar and the unknown, triggering sensations and emotions that capture the moment. Throughout this journey, experiences, spaces and materialities converge, either as parallel or as complimentary events.
- Research
- The arrangement addresses a series of choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones towards the landscape-via the terraces- and towards the site. A series of cascading terraces is developed resembling F.L. Wright Fallingwater. The design also considers the play of light on the textured surfaces, the depth of color, the manipulation of the form and the overall aesthetic qualities.
- Inspiration
- The design approach prioritizes the utilization of the main view which opens up towards the SW and NW due to the site s location and topography of the suburb of Kifissia. The internal arrangement attempts to address a series of carefully choreographed views of the landscape and is organized in public and private zones that are extrovert towards the landscape, via the terraces, and introvert towards the site. This results in a series of cascading terraces at a slight angle with each other.
- Project Duration
- Design: 2021
Location: Athens, Greece - Operation Flow
- The overall design approach was not preoccupied by a certain aesthetic correctness, but first and foremost to establish as a key parameter, the potential of a multi-sensory experience between the building and the landscape, and also aiming at the substantiation of individuality in architecture through the expression of the architectural object.
- Team Members
- Architectural Design: Potiropoulos and Partners
3D Visualization: Batis Studio - Image Credits
- 3D Visualization: Batis Studio
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